The fascinating, often complex, often context-sensitive, classical mathematical notation presents a host of problems for machine
          interpretation. For those who forsee an educational environment in which interactive course material is delivered world-wide
          across the Web, the demand of universities (the accrediting agencies) for students to master the calssical notation is somewhat
          frustrating. Computer-base notations, on the other hand, can also sometimes be clumsy, confusing, inelegant and aesthetically
          displeasing. A solution to this impasse might seem to be yet some way off.  Nevertheless, as students, rather than instructors,
          increasingly come to determine the choice of purchase in educational products, it might prove to be possible to acquire
          mastery of classical notation by routes other than the traditional ones.

          The USQ web-interfaced arrary-based first course in mathematics provides one such different approach to the introduction of
          calculus. Because it is numerically based, the course largely avoids classical notation and lends itself well to distribution over
          the Internet. Linking the computations done in the course activities with classical notation is currently left to printed materials.

          We will briefly outline the numerical approach to the teaching of calculus, and describe how the program is delivered over the Web.